Posted on 10/03/2017 3:19:59 PM PDT by qaz123
The latest local pitch to attract Amazon? Create a city of Amazon for the company’s planned expansion site.
The Stonecrest City Council voted 4-2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres of land if the e-commerce giant picks the area for what the company calls HQ2, a corporate hub where Seattle-based Amazon says it will one day house 50,000 jobs.
The city’s resolution asks the Georgia General Assembly to form the city of Amazon on that land, located off Lithonia Industrial Boulevard and Coffee Road in DeKalb County.
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But, I do find one thing comical in the article.....
Amazon is seeking a 175-acre site located near an international airport, public transit and high quality of living. Lary said he hopes MARTA expands rail service to Stonecrest.
If Bezos is looking for high quality of living, then Stonecrest, ain't it. This is going to be a bunch of politicians and their buddies making a bundle, while throwing their residents under the bus.
If this deal goes thru, it will redefine the term, regentrification.
Sounds like they want the old Ford Plant site in St Paul MN..
With out the MN taxes.
It won’t go through. This will have to be close to a big city. Chicago would be perfect if you want to ignore the daily murders and murderous taxes.
Lithonia is only 15 minutes from Atlanta, without traffic. Probably a 30-40 minute ride to Hartsfield and numerous smaller airports to handle private jets, very close.
My money is on Chattanooga. They already has a big distribution center there. Great city. Affordable, for now. No state income taxes and centrally located to everything east of the Mississippi.
It’s Atlanta, basically. You know, home of the busiest airport in the world?
City of Amazons?
That’s kinda hot.
Hot Springs, NM renamed itself to get a radio broadcast.
Chicago can do the same for longer term jobs.
OTOH, all that crime in "Amazon", IL, will give the original Amazon River communities a bad name.
“We built this city
“We built this city
“We built this city
“on AM-A-ZOOOOONNNNN!”
Worst cut ever by FM/S - proof they lost it and went bubblegum.
Is Chattanooga big enough to handle 150,000 new residents in a very short time? Doesn’t seem likely.
NC is fighting for this as well.
Truth or Consequences.
Racism?
According to the article, it’s 50k, but who’s counting.
When has something like quality built housing ever stopped a developer from slapping up one, customer service nightmare after the other. Figure it’ll take at least a year or two to build the damn thing.
They’ll have people living in trailers, no different than the CHUs, used overseas. Hell, the hipsters and liberals that are going to work there will probably love living in a shipping container. Just pour a slab and stack ‘em.
Very high crime area too, quality of life area is not how Stonecrest is described best.
Lithonia is close to Atlanta, a big city.
According to the article, it’s 50k, but who’s counting.
Multipliers. A big employer moves to town, and you are going to need Starbucks, hotels, vets, car repair shops, private schools, landscapers, folks to clean the restrooms and vacuum the offices....
Amazon isn’t as good as a coal mine or an oilfield, but it is probably a 2x to 3x multiplier. Which would get you to 100,000 or 150,000 jobs.
True. But as has been stated, the area in Georgia doesn’t exactly ring the bell of “quality of life”. It’s kind of a dump and lots and lots of people will get run out of their homes.
I won't disagree with that, although it isn't nearly as bad as Clayton County. As far as running folks out of their homes, the area northeast of there is pretty low density. Or wait for urban crime to kill the local mall. As Wikipedia quaintly puts it, "The mall serves a diverse clientele including blacks and Hispanics"
Concerning Atlanta, why not halfway between Atlanta and Macon or just south of the Atlanta airport on I-75? Lots of empty land and near the airport. Near Peachtree City. Build a new town.
Clayton used to be nice, around 20 years ago. The Feds started knocking down all the projects in Atlanta and the residents of those projects had to go somewhere. So, Dekalb and Clayton got the brunt of it. Shame!!
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